Patterns of plant trait-environment relationships along a forest succession chronosequence

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 38-48

  Campetella, Giandiego ^a   Botta Dukát, Zoltán ^b   Wellstein, Camilla ^c   Canullo, Roberto ^a   Gatto, Simone ^a   Chelli, Stefano ^a   Mucina, Ladislav ^d   Bartha, Sándor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Environment species trait relationship; Forest management; Habitat filtering; Herb layer; Land use change; Model Based Recursive Partitioning MOB; Plant functional traits; Resource acquisition; Vegetative mobility

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COPPICE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HERB; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SUCCESSION;

APENNINES; ITALY;

FAGUS;

EID: 84867758455     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2011.06.025     Document Type: Article

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